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Old 01-01-2004, 03:49 PM  
Digipimp
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Spam solutions, got any?

You know what I've often wondered. We all know we all receive tons of junk mail to our home mailboxes courtesy of the USPS and no one is looking to outlaw that as of yet that I know of although some people bitch about it.

With all of the technology that we have today is it not possible to incorporate a similar way of handling spam, your regular mail at home comes in an envelope now why is it not possible to incorportate a wrapper to spam that gives an indication of what one might expect to see when opening? So that children are protected and people who don't want spam can easily eliminate spam without having to be subjected to it totally. Would it not also increase effectiveness of it?

Does anyone receive porn spam that isn't interested in porn and they buy because it's so convincing, I highly doubt it, so these people would be likely to open the "wrapper" if it indicated adult content was inside thus increasing effectiveness. It would save children from viewing at the expense of not knowing. And it could be a reasonable way to allow spamming to exist in a legal form. Of course there are always people that fuck this up, but I'm talking about as a whole, not the assholes.

Is this just a really stupid ideas or could companies start to incorporate this idea on their own to fight the coming laws and regulation of spam to make it more friendly?
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